Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa are scheduled to play in the Carlos Baerga Celebrity Softball Game in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is scheduled to visit Sweden.

Parliamentary elections are under way in Taiwan.

On Sunday, December 6, local elections are to be held in Russia.

On Monday December 7, the Presidents Golf Cup Tournament is to be held in Melbourne, Australia. South African President Nelson Mandela, and former U.S. presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George Bush expected to attend.

On Tuesday, December 8, President Clinton is scheduled to hold the first White House conference on Social Security in Washington.

Also on December 8, The House Judiciary Committee is tenatively scheduled to hear president Clinton's defense in connection with possible articles of impeachment. Presentations by GOP counsel David Schippers and Democratic counsel Abbe Lowell are scheduled.

On Wednesday, December 9, a hearing for Dr. Jack Kevorkian is scheduled in Pontiac, Michigan. He was charged with first-degree murder after the euthanization of a terminally ill man aired on national television.